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Does larger brain size or brain/body wt. mean greater intelligence?
Does a larger head mean more brain and hence greater intelligence?
selfAdjoint
Oct17-04, 02:47 PM
Does larger brain size or brain/body wt. mean greater intelligence?
Does a larger head mean more brain and hence greater intelligence?
Maybe not brain size as a whole, but development of certain parts of the brain. See this (http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~thompson/HBM2003/isir2003ALL.html) report from a conference on the neural correlates of g.
Past discussion on this...
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=42097
Sonny Crockett
Oct19-04, 12:21 AM
One of the more popular theories (but still very much flawed) is the brain/body ratio.
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